The former Democratic lawmaker was accused of disrupting a Tarrant County Commissioners Court meeting and spent hours in jail before his release.
Alex Nguyen
Alex Nguyen is a general assignment reporter with a focus on criminal justice. Before joining the newsroom in 2025, she was a breaking news reporter at The Dallas Morning News. She previously was a reporting fellow for the Tribune and a reporting intern at Bloomberg News. A graduate of Columbia University’s Stabile Center for Investigative Journalism, Alex was raised mostly in Vancouver, Canada, and she has reported for various regional and national outlets there. She speaks Vietnamese and conversational Spanish and will be based in Austin.
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Congress
Former U.S. Rep. Kay Granger dies at 83
Granger was the first GOP woman from Texas to be elected to Congress, where she served for nearly three decades.
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Immigration
ACLU launches legal claims in 17 states against immigration detention conditions, including Texas
A $10 million claim by Elton Purvis, who was held in Texas for seven months before his deportation, is part of the group’s allegations that immigrants’ medical and other needs were neglected.
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Houston ICE Shooting
Witness to Houston ICE shooting released from immigration detention
A federal judge on Monday ordered that Jose Trinidad Rojas Pliego be released within 48 hours. He was one of three passengers in the van Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving when he was fatally shot by ICE.
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Houston ICE Shooting
Substance found in van after Houston ICE shooting wasn’t drugs, DA and U.S. Rep. Sylvia Garcia say
The FBI suggested plastic bags in the van contained methamphetamine. The agency hasn’t released official test results.
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Houston ICE Shooting
Judge blocks feds from deporting witness to Houston ICE shooting
The order applies to one of the three passengers in the van Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving when he was fatally shot by ICE. Lawyers are seeking the men’s release from detention.
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Houston ICE Shooting
Passengers in Houston ICE shooting say agents rammed their van before firing
The newly released, handwritten statements by two men who saw Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s shooting say he never threatened ICE agents.
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Immigration
ICE is arresting relatives who come forward to take custody of migrant children in federal shelters
Attorneys say the federal agencies are using children as “bait” to detain sponsors, leaving kids waiting in shelters for months.
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Immigration
Anti-immigrant buoys that went adrift amid Rio Grande flooding force closure of key bridge to Mexico
The buoys had forced the closure of two bridges near Eagle Pass for about three hours on Thursday when Rio Grande levels rose.
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Houston ICE Shooting
FBI suggests migrants’ van in fatal Houston shooting had meth. A lawyer says it was salt.
Harris County District Attorney Sean Teare, whose office is running an investigation into the shooting, also expressed doubt that there were drugs in Lorenzo Salgado Araujo’s van.
